I have a new job serving popcorn had to Minnesota movie theater.
I want to tell you the contrast of how different families live.
Well I was working, and Asian American family came in with five kids. They ordered a regular size popcorn for the entire family. The kids were asking the parents for pop but the parents were saying no, we already spent enough.
Shortly after, two Somali woman came in with a total of 20 children! Literally 20! They then bought each of those 20 kids their own combo pack which includes a popcorn and a soft drink. These combo packs cost $13 each!
If you add on the movie tickets, these women must have been spending more than $400 tonight!
I am reminded of the section of "1984" where the economic system is explained, roughly summarised:
The aim is to spend resources on anything that does not raise the general welfare of the people.
In 1984 they created weapons, and great machines of war, then destroyed them in counterfeit wars. Equally they could have manufactured good, piled them up, burned them.
We in the west, we have this new method. Import a whole community that does not blend and become the people, they are just an other-people. Then they can be lavished with generous payments, which they spend into the economy, leak abroad, or simply save into offshore accounts. Thus resources are spent and the typical tax payer gets nothing. The tax payer is poorer from paying the tax, but his general welfare is not raised. Bonus: he has people in his midst that he can be persuaded to feel negatively toward, lowering his "vibes" and keeping misery high. Bonus2: the sight of people who he knows by pure insight could never outperform him in toil are apparently well rewarded for their indolence - demoralisation is added into the mix.
The effect is to keep you poor, angry, sad, and hopelessly helpless to the point of suicidal epidemics.
It is an alternative to traditional war
NOW-teen-eighty-four.